Jacques Natteau

Jacques Natteau (15 November 1920 – 17 April 2007) was a French Director of Photography born in Istanbul, Turkey. Natteau was married twice, first in 1942 to Geneviève Langevin, with whom he had a daughter, Catherine. The couple divorced in 1953. In 1961, while working on Le Comte de Monte Cristo, he met actress Yvonne Furneaux who starred as “Emma” in La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini). They lived between London, Paris, and Rome in the 1960s as they continued to pursue their film careers. They were married from 1962 until his death. He had two children: Catherine with Geneviève and Nicholas Natteau with Yvonne.

Catherine and her only child Alexandre where murdered in 1980 by her estranged ex-husband Maxime Breguet who then committed suicide.